Cornell University

Chronology of Coverage

Mar. 4, 2015

Ivy League rule blocks Cornell forward Shonn Miller from playing for team in his final year because he is a graduate student; Miller, one of the most accomplished players in program history, is still eligible to play for other schools and will essentially become a free agent in May. MORE

Feb. 28, 2015

College Basketball Roundup; Cornell defeats Harvard, 57-49, in men's action; other men's and women's scores and news noted. MORE

Feb. 21, 2015

Yale men's basketball team defeats Cornell, 62-51; other men's and women's college basketball scores noted. MORE

Nov. 6, 2014

David W Dunlap Building Blocks column examines effort by conservators at Cornell University to restore three rare 7-by-50-foot murals from Goldwater Memorial Hospital on Roosevelt Island; observes that initial challenge was to locate two of the murals, which had been painted over long ago; hospital is being torn down to make way for Cornell Tech campus. MORE

Oct. 6, 2014

Cornell University plans to transform its curriculum to make real-world experiences a defining aspect of the undergraduate experience; backed by $50 million from the Einhorn Family Charitable Trust, which university officials intend to augment with $100 million from other philanthropies, the program will be called Engaged Cornell; ultimate goal is to have all graduating students take at least one course with a community-engaged component. MORE

Oct. 1, 2014

Elizabeth Garrett, provost of University of Southern California, will become president of Cornell University in July 2015; she is first woman to hold position. MORE

Mar. 1, 2014

Harvard beats Cornell, 72-47, in men's college basketball, logging its 23rd regular season win, second-highest total in team history; other college basketball results noted. MORE

Dec. 27, 2013

Cornell, darling of the 2010 NCAA tournament, is the lone Division I men’s basketball team without a victory for current season; as team, with 0-11 record, searches for that first win, its coach is trying to forge a team identity. MORE

Nov. 23, 2013

Cornell quarterback Jeff Matthews draws inspiration from his sister Katie, who suffered severe injuries in 2006 car accident and is a quadriplegic. MORE

Nov. 15, 2013

Cornell fires its men’s lacrosse coach, Ben DeLuca, two months after the fall season was canceled because of hazing; Matt Kerwick will serve as the interim coach. MORE

Sep. 20, 2013

Cornell cancels all fall competitions for its men’s lacrosse team for what the university describes as 'a team hazing incident.' MORE

Aug. 5, 2013

Ithaca, NY, led by Svante L Myrick, young mayor with an idealist’s approach, has fostered a reciprocal relationship with Cornell University and Ithaca College that has created thousands of jobs. MORE

Apr. 23, 2013

Cornell Tech, applied sciences graduate school slated to be built on Manhattan's Roosevelt Island, receives gift of $133 million to fund Technion-Cornell Innovation Institute, joint project with Technion-Israel Institute of Technology; institute will bear name of donors, Qualcomm founder Irwin Jacobs and his wife Joan. MORE

Apr. 21, 2013

Cornell University has acquired, since 2007, about 80,000 artifacts related to hip-hop culture, including promotional fliers that combine rub-on deco lettering, photo booth portraits and comic book cutouts; school hopes to preserve history of the old school scene despite the minimal documentation of its pioneer creations. MORE

Apr. 14, 2013

Cornell NYC Tech, winner of Mayor Michael R Bloomberg's contest to create a new science school, is up and running in Chelsea neighborhood of Manhattan; new graduate school is part of unorthodox curriculum designed to eschew the traditional detached, academic approach to learning in favor of business, technology and real-world experience. MORE

Mar. 10, 2013

College Basketball East Roundup; Harvard beats Cornell, 65-56, to win its third straight Ivy League title and clinch NCAA tournament berth; other men's college basketball scores noted. MORE

Jan. 22, 2013

Cornell NYC Tech, graduate school for applied sciences opening on Roosevelt Island, is most ambitious institution of higher education to open in New York City in decades; bold experiment on many fronts, most striking departure of all may be relationship it sets forth between university and industry, in which commerce and education are not just compatible, but nearly indistinguishable. MORE

Jan. 12, 2013

Cornell University withdraws its recognition of Tau Epsilon Phi fraternity after an October 2012 hazing incident; episode comes two years after a Cornell student died following a fraternity drinking ritual. MORE

Jan. 5, 2013

Dec. 20, 2012

Oct. 15, 2012

Campus of Cornell NYC Tech, graduate school for technology projected to open in 2017, is expected to transform Manhattan's Roosevelt Island from a sleepy community into a high-tech hothouse. MORE

Sep. 11, 2012

Lowville Journal; attendees at the inaugural Lewis County, NY, Homesteading Fair participate in dozens of classes in subjects related to sustainable living; classes, offered by the Cornell University Cooperative Extension, are part of a nationwide celebration of International Homesteading Education Month. MORE

Jun. 28, 2012

Three former Cornell University undergraduates are found not guilty of hazing sophomore George Desdunes, who died during a fraternity ritual in 2011; Max Haskin, Ben Mann and Edward Williams were accused of making Desdunes drink excessive amounts of alcohol during an induction ceremony for the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity. MORE

May. 9, 2012

Thom Mayne of the architecture firm Morphosis is selected to design the first academic building for Cornell University’s high-tech graduate school campus on Roosevelt Island in New York City. MORE

Apr. 15, 2012

Death of Cornell University sophomore George Desdunes, as a result of a fraternity hazing ritual gone wrong, illustrates the dangers of a common practice taken to extremes; alcohol is the not-so-secret ingredient that turns pledging into hazing. MORE

Feb. 4, 2012

Harvard defeats Cornell, 71-60, to remain unbeaten in Ivy League men's college basketball; other results noted. MORE

Dec. 26, 2011

Top officials from Cornell and its partner Technion-Israel Institute of Technology found much to agree on as they built a proposal for a graduate school on Roosevelt Island that overwhelmed the competition. MORE

Dec. 20, 2011

Roosevelt Island Journal; residents of Roosevelt Island have mixed reactions to Cornell University's plan to build $2 billion world-class graduate school campus on the two-mile strip of land. MORE

Dec. 20, 2011

Atlantic Philanthropies, whose founder Charles F Feeney is a Cornell University alumnus, has donated $350 million to build university's high-tech graduate school on Roosevelt Island; gift is the largest in the university's history. MORE

Dec. 19, 2011

Mayor Michael R Bloomberg plans to announce that he has chosen Cornell University to create a new science graduate school on Roosevelt Island, capping an intense yearlong competition in his ambitious bid to spur a boom in New York City’s high-tech sector. MORE

Dec. 17, 2011

Stanford University abruptly drops out of intense international competition to build an innovative science graduate school in New York City; Cornell announces historic $350 million gift to underwrite its bid; twin announcements throw sharp curve into contest, leaving Cornell's $2 billion proposal for Roosevelt Island as clear front runner; city is expected to select among four remaining applicants in January 2012, and bestow up to $400 million in land and infrastructure improvements. MORE

Nov. 27, 2011

Boston University men's hockey team defeats Cornell, 2-1, in Red Hot Hockey game at Madison Square Garden. MORE

Oct. 24, 2011

Bloomberg administration’s contest to create a school of applied sciences on Roosevelt Island has set high environmental standards, but some universities competing for rights have gone even further in their proposals; features include geothermal wells, energy-neutral buildings and a filtration marsh; Stanford and Cornell are so far seen as frontrunners. MORE

Oct. 17, 2011

Stanford and Cornell appear to be top contenders in competition for $400 million in land and subsidies to build science and engineering graduate school on New York City's Roosevelt Island; city officials are trying to discourage notion that there are front-runners. MORE

Aug. 2, 2011

Five Cornell standouts who took the Ivy League men's basketball team on a memorable NCAA tourney run in 2010 remain close-knit off the court; Jeff Foote, Ryan Wittman, Louis Dale, Jon Jaques and Aaron Osgood work out together at 92nd Street Y, and four of them are hoping to play basketball professionally overseas. MORE